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Emery the player

The 46-year-old started out at Real Sociedad, although he struggled to make an impression in the first team, spending most of his time there with the B team.

Most of his career in Spain was spent playing Segunda Division football with Toledo, Racing Ferrol and Legans before finishing up at Lorca Deportiva.

Unai Emery during his time as PSG manager. (Image: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty Images)

First steps into management

Injury curtailed Emery's playing career and he was given his first chance at management by Lorca Deportiva. And he had near immediate success with the lower league side, guiding them to promotion to the second tier.

However, he did not stay long and was soon off to Almeria, with whom he also won promotion, taking them into La Liga.

In their first season in La Liga, Emery guided the club to an eight-place finish.

Valencia - La Liga big time

His stock continued to rise and Valencia came knocking and after finishing sixth in their first season, Emery led them to third place in 2009/10 securing Champions League football.

That happened again and again, with two further third place finishes in La Liga and continued qualification for the Champions League.

After elimination in the group stage in 2011/12 and their third consecutive third-place finish, Emery left Valencia and Spain altogether.

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The disaster

Emery moved across the continent to Russia where he became manager of Spartak Moscow, but he did not last long - just six months and 26 matches in fact, before he was sacked.

Spartak had been knocked out of the Champions League at the group stage, winning just once in five games before he was sacked, against Benfica. And following a 3-0 reverse at the hands of Barcelona, Spartak were thumped 5-1 by rivals Dinamo Moscow and his time was up.

Return to Spain

Emery was back in Spain with Sevilla just two months later and they won eight and lost seven of his 19 matches in charge to finish eighth and qualify for the Europa League.

And in 2013/14 Emery won the Europa League with Sevilla, beating Benfica in the final and they finished fifth in La Liga too.

Unai Emery, then coach of Sevilla, kisses the trophy after the UEFA Europa League final against FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. (Image: Martin Rose/Getty Images)

Europa honours

Not content with winning the Europa League once, Sevilla went and secured back-to-back titles by beating Dnipro 3-2 in the final and with it a place in the Champions League for the 2015/16 campaign as a result of the rule change.

Sevilla finished fifth again that season.

The Champions League did not quite go to plan, as Sevilla finished third and dropped into the Europa League once more.

And a third straight win in the competition was unprecedented as they beat Liverpool 3-1 in the final.

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To France

Emery called time on his Sevilla career after three-and-a-half seasons and was given the plum job of taking Paris Saint-Germain to the next level. He was tasked with winning the Champions League with the big-spending French giants.

They finished second in Ligue Un, behind Monaco in 2016/17 and went out in the round of 16 of the Champions League, losing to Barcelona having won the first leg 4-0. It was an astonishing comeback from the Catalan giants.

Last season PSG won the title losing just three times, but once again they were knocked out of the Champions League in the round of 16, this time to Real Madrid.

Unai Emery and Arsene Wenger together.

And now...

After leaving PSG this summer, Emery will arrive at the Emirates, where he has big Arsene Wenger-shaped shoes to fill.

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